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The more he acquiesced in John’s schemes, the more John suspected his motives. He plumbed the hollow depths of the young emperor’s mind, but he still did not know what to do, nor how...

4. So with one accord they straightway banded together for the contest. With the artillery of their logic they laid siege to her soul — an easy capture. They reminded her of Michael’s adoption,...

Michael V 1041-1042Theodora 10491. His nephew, whom I have mentioned several times in the last book, succeeded him as emperor. In fact, when John and his brothers perceived that Michael was at death’s door,...

10. Lastly, it must be observed that in every case of injuria he who has received it may bring either a criminal or a civil actio. In the latter, it is a sum estimated,...

6. If the injury has been done to a free man, who serves you bona fide, you have no actio, but he can bring an actio in his own name, unless he has been...

1. An injuria is committed not only by striking with the fists, or striking with clubs or the lash, but also by shouting until a crowd gathers around any one; by taking possession of...

15. Even the word plurimi, i. e., of the greatest value, is not expressed in this case. But Sabinus was rightly of opinion that the estimation ought to be made as if this word...

10. It has been decided not by virtue of the actual wording of the law, but by interpretation, that not only is the value of the thing perishing to be estimated as we have...

4. Consequently, if anyone playing or practicing with a javelin pierces with it your slave as he goes by, there is a distinction made; if the accident befalls a soldier while in the camp,...

2. In this actio it is not necessary that the thing should have been a part of the goods of the plaintiff; for whether it has been a part of his goods or not,...